[artix-general] [s6] upgrade on s6 packages breaks several artix box functionalities

[Javier]

On June 13, 2020 11:27:46 AM CST, Javier via artix-general <artix-general at artixlinux.org> wrote:
>On June 13, 2020 7:45:56 AM CST, Dudemanguy via artix-general
><artix-general at artixlinux.org> wrote:
>>Oh and beware that the new variable is now called DIRECTIVES not
>>DIRECTIVE.
>>
>>On 6/13/20 8:38 AM, Dudemanguy via artix-general wrote:
>>> On 6/12/20 10:36 PM, Javier via artix-general wrote:
>>>> There might be other s6 packages coming in the pipeline to upgrade,
>
>>>> but I suggest not pushing them until understanding what's going on
>>> 
>>> The format for the /etc/s6/sv/daemon-log/conf file changed for all
>>those 
>>> services. This is because the newest execline (2.6.1.0-1) is now
>>capable 
>>> of supporting double quotes in the envfile command (i.e. like how
>>bash 
>>> normally does it). This makes the logging script 
>>> (/etc/s6/sv/daemon-log/run) much simpler. If you had changed the 
>>> DIRECTIVE variable in the conf file in some way, you will need to 
>>> manually change your file to make sure the variable is correct.
>Those
>>
>>> conf files are part of the PKGBUILD's backup array and are not 
>>> overwritten if there are local changes. There should have been a
>>message 
>>> during the upgrade that a .pacnew file and such was created.
>
>Well, I dont hace any local chamges to any S6 stuff (none of my trials
>for decryptimg the non root FS failed). So pure stock/vanilla from
>artix. So I didn't get any pacnew file.  I'll try later upgrading the
>packages one by one to see if there's sort of one or two main culprits.
>But 1st I need to upgrade some boxes excluding all S6 updates, and
>moving before that all swap files generated by fallocate to being
>generated by dd.
>
>As for S6, I honestly have no clue, but if I'm not mistaken, perhaps I
>saw a message or two with the DIRECTIVE warning, but if that's the
>case, they came from artix packages, not me.
>
>Greetings !

Sorry, several things were mistakenly written in my last email, with the phone guessing stuff.  Just in case, I tried to say all my trials failed, BTW. Thanks!
-- 
Javier